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Over the years, Facebook has been embroiled in all kinds of scandals and controversies, but yet no matter what the company has done to try and mitigate or correct those mistakes, the public perception of them is definitely not where it used to be. However, moving forwards, it seems that Facebook will have a new approach.

During Facebook’s earnings call with analysts, the company’s CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed that the company had a new goal, and that was that they wanted to be understood, even if it doesn’t necessarily mean that they will be liked in the process. According to Zuckerberg, “People need to know where you stand,” which he believes will help with them being trusted.

The CEO was quoted as telling analysts, “One critique of our approach for much of the last decade was that because we wanted to be liked, we didn’t always communicate our views as clearly because we were worried about offending people.”

That being said, despite everything that has happened and with all the controversies surrounding the company, it seems that Facebook has managed to beat expectations. According to Debra Aho Williamson, a principal analyst at eMarketer, “This is a company that has shown that it can withstand ongoing criticism of its practices and yet still pull out gains in both revenue and users.”

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Similar to human beings, when machines like computers get too hot, they can stop functioning properly or optimally. This is we as humans sweat, to help our body cool down, and this is a concept that researchers are taking and applying it to robots. This has resulted in a soft robot that can apparently “sweat” to keep itself cool.

It is believed that with this concept, in the future, more robots could be used in the field in environments that are hot, or work for longer periods of time without overheating as the “sweating” would essentially allow it to cool down.

To create this “sweating” soft robot, researchers covered the fingers with a resin that can shrink and expand depending on the temperature. The finger was also drilled with microscopic pores that would only allow water to drip out at temperatures above 30 degrees Celsius, meaning that at lower temperatures, it would retain the water similar to humans.

However, there are some hurdles that need to be overcome before this can be implemented. For example, how do these robots deal with the slipperyness of the water when it comes to grasping objects, and also, how do they replenish the water when it runs out?

According to the paper’s co-author Robert Shepherd, these robots might need to adopt a human trait: drinking. “The answer is right in front of me — I’m drinking some coffee right now. I think in order for the robot to operate with the sweating we have created, it would also have to be able to drink.”

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The problem with many drones these days, commercial ones at least, is that battery life is usually not particularly great. Some of the bigger models might last longer, but the smaller ones have flight times that can be embarrassingly short. However, researchers at Brown University think that they might have found a solution.

No, they have not created larger batteries, but rather it seems that they are taking some cues from mother nature and have come up with a new wing design that could potentially increase the flight time of drones. This design idea was taken from birds where it is believed that this could result in the drones being able to fly more efficiently, thus reducing the amount of energy it requires.

What’s interesting is that this design also seems to fly (pun intended) in the face of aerodynamic design, where the researchers have opted to do away with the smooth contours of a wing’s leading edge. With this design, the researchers believe that the drone will be more capable of withstanding puffs of wind or turbulence.

According to one of the paper’s researchers, Kenny Breuer, who is also a professor at Brown’s School of Engineering, “Animals at small scale don’t try to keep the flow attached. They gave up on that 100 million years ago. Once you stop trying to keep the flow constantly attached, it ironically makes some things easier.”

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With the majority of the Earth’s surface being covered with water, there’s actually still a lot about the ocean that we do not know. This is because it goes deep, very, very deep, which means that what we know so far could only just be the tip. Deep-sea exploration is something that many scientists and researchers are curious about, and it looks like they might have found a new way to go about it.

Thanks to the work of scientists at Caltech and Stanford University, they have come up with a way that could potentially allow jellyfish to help them with their exploration efforts. How they’ve done this is by using electrical impulses generated by a microprosthetic that would help the jellyfish swim faster, which in turn would allow the researchers to gather more data as the jellyfish make their rounds.

These electrical impulses have been likened to how a cardiac pacemaker would work, where through these impulses, it would spur the jellyfish to swim up to three times faster than they normally would. The researchers also studied the jellyfish to ensure that the creatures were not harmed and were not stressed despite these electrical impulses being sent through their bodies.

According to Caltech’s John Dabiri, “If we can find a way to direct these jellyfish and also equip them with sensors to track things like ocean temperature, salinity, oxygen levels, and so on, we could create a truly global ocean network where each of the jellyfish robots costs a few dollars to instrument and feeds themselves energy from prey already in the ocean.”

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